In this episode:
- our trip to the Brooklyn Museum to see Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) starring Paul Reubens and Mark Holton,
- The Pee-wee Herman Show live stage show in 1980,
- Phil Hartman,
- Peter Cullen narrating the new Coors Light commercial,
- Frank Welker as the voice of Soundwave and Ravage in the upcoming movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009),
- listener email from Esteban in South Dakota (http://pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com/),
- the Snickers Nougabot Bar featuring Bumblebee,
- the upcoming movie Dance Flick (2009) starring Damon Wayans Jr.,
- our movie review of The Lion in Winter (1968) starring Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn,
- our movie review of Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) starring Pat Boone,
- Regis Philbin dressed up as Shrek on Late Show with David Letterman,
- Rob winning a car phone in the sixth grade fundraiser,
- the Digital Press video game store used in Capital One’s new credit card commercial,
- Greg switching from Comcast to Verizon FiOS,
- and DVD bitrates.
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There’s a made-for-TV movie remake of The Lion in Winter from 2003 starring Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close.
Blu-ray movies are encoded at a maximum of 40 Mbps, compared to 29.4 Mbps max. for HD-DVD and 8 Mbps max. for DVD (5 Mbps average). VHS tapes would be the equivalent of 2 Mbps.
Paul Reubens had auditioned for Saturday Night Live in 1980 and was rejected. Gilbert Gottfried was chosen instead.
Did you guys hear Pee-Wee is doing his stage show again? It’s happening in Los Angeles. Holy hell he’s gotta be sixty years old.
Esteban, thanks for the link. That’s crazy! And you’re right, Paul Reubens will be 57 in eight days. Pee-wee’s an old man now, which makes me a little sad.
just on scanning the topics discussed in this episode shows how varied your show is. there are hundreds of podcasts, but yourselves do literally talk about ANYTHING, yet somehow focused and everything fits together. i never noticed clunky non-sequiturs. my mate who hates everything keeps telling me to watch ‘greedy’ just because of phil hartman – so it must be good!